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Brolin
(Hardcover)
B S Dunn
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R233
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Discovery Miles 560
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The gunfighter known as Brolin was thought to have been dead for
the past ten years. That was until Red Mike Stall and his outlaws
hijacked the westbound train and attempted to murder everyone on
board. Stall recognized Brolin from the old days and left him to
burn in the abandoned church with the other passengers. He should
have shot Brolin then and there because the gunfighter managed to
escape and now is dogging the bloody trail Stall has left in his
wake. With the help of Emmett King, a greenhorn store owner who
lost his son to a stray bullet from the outlaws, the pair
eventually catch up to Stall in the town of Miller's Crossing. In a
final bloody showdown, can a dead man win the day? Or will a killer
continue his murderous rampage across the high country? And what is
the secret Brolin is hiding?
After a rough winter spent alone, Ursula Nordegren realizes she
must overcome her fears of the outside world and begins a trek down
Hope Mountain. Along the way she finds a badly wounded stranger and
realizes God may have used her decision to leave as a way of saving
the man. Wax Mosby was climbing Hope Mountain in part to atone for
his terrible choices. He was hired to drive out the Warden family
and now knows he was duped. But when he's wounded during the climb,
the last person he expects to rescue him is a beautiful blond woman
with the voice of an angel. As both Ursula and Wax weigh the costs
of living new lives, the two find an unlikely bond. And they're
joined by Ursula's sisters and the Warden family as the final
showdown over the family ranch looms with the coming of spring.
The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a
multigenerational family saga set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sand
Hills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee--an
ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal,
family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters
shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land.Ten
years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred
Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a
white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are
murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.'s land. The deaths bring
together the scattered members of the Bennett family: J.B.'s
cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and
his teenage sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin
deaths unfolds, the history of the dysfunctional Bennetts and their
damning secrets is revealed, exposing the conflicted heart of a
nation caught between past and future.At the center of The Bones of
Paradise are two remarkable women. Dulcinea, returned after bitter
years of self-exile, yearns for redemption and the courage to mend
her broken family and reclaim the land that is rightfully hers.
Rose, scarred by the terrible slaughters that have decimated and
dislocated her people, struggles to accept the death of her sister,
Star, and refuses to rest until she is avenged.A kaleidoscopic
portrait of misfits, schemers, chancers, and dreamers, Jonis Agee's
bold novel is a panorama of America at the dawn of a new century. A
beautiful evocation of this magnificent, blood-soaked land--its
sweeping prairies, seas of golden grass, and sandy hills, all at
the mercy of two unpredictable and terrifying forces, weather and
lawlessness--and the durable men and women who dared to tame it.
Intimate and epic, The Bones of Paradise is a remarkable
achievement: a mystery, a tragedy, a romance, and an unflagging
exploration of the beauty and brutality, tenderness and cruelty
that defined the settling of the American West.
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The Kid
(Paperback)
Ron Hansen
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R463
R382
Discovery Miles 3 820
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Originally published more than fifty years ago, THE BIG SKY is the first of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s, epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier. THE BIG SKY introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers, three of the most memorable characters in Western American literature. Traveling the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, these frontiersmen live as trappers, traders, guides, and explorers. The story centers on Caudill, a young Kentuckian driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of big, wild places. Caught up in the freedom and savagery of the wilderness, Caudill becomes an untamed mountain man, whom only the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief dares to love. With THE BIG SKY, Guthrie gives us an unforgettable portrait of a spacious land and a unique way of life.
A stunning literary debut, Horseman, Pass By (1961) exhibits the
"full-blooded Western genius" (Publishers Weekly) that would come
to define McMurtry's incomparable sensibility. In the dusty north
Texas town of Thalia, young Lonnie Bannon quietly endures the pangs
of maturity as a persistent rivalry between his grandfather and
step-uncle, Hud, festers, and a deadly disease spreads among their
cattle like wildfire.
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The Blinds
(Paperback)
Adam Sternbergh
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R452
R377
Discovery Miles 3 770
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The Last Picture Show (1966) is both a rambunctious coming-of-age
story and an elegy to a forlorn Texas town trying to keep its one
movie house alive. Adapted into the Oscar-winning film, this
masterpiece immortalizes the lives of the hardscrabble residents
who are threatened by the inexorable forces of the modern world.
DEA Special Agent Garrett Kohl must rescue a CIA officer when she's
kidnapped in Texas by a ruthless band of mercenaries in this
pulse-pounding thriller for fans of C. J. Box. Special Agent
Garrett Kohl has just taken down a dangerous and deadly cartel boss
when he finds trouble brewing back on his family's homestead. A
powerful energy consortium, Talon Corporation, has started an
aggressive mining operation that threatens to destroy Garrett's
land, his family's way of life, and everything they hold dear. To
achieve its goals, Talon is flouting the law, bribing public
officials, and meeting anyone who challenges it with physical
violence. When the Kohls themselves are attacked by Talon guards,
Garrett goes on the offensive, embarking on an investigation that
he hopes will rid the Texas High Plains of the intruders once and
for all. Garrett soon discovers that the company has origins in the
dark hinterlands of countries across the globe. Using coercion and
assassination levied by men from former Russian special operations
forces, Talon is working on a highly secretive scheme to commandeer
precious U.S. resources. The tit for tat exchange between Talon and
the Kohls erupts into a full-scale war when Russian spy, Alexi
Orlov, kidnaps Garrett's friend and ally, CIA operative Kim
Manning. While Talon may be accustomed to getting its way in many
places around the world, they have yet to encounter this rare breed
of warrior down in Texas-a man who will fight to the death to
protect those that he loves.
In "The Wandering Hill, " Larry McMurtry continues the story of
Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family in the still unexplored
Wild West of the 1830s. Their journey is one of exploration, beset
by difficulties, tragedies, the desertion of trusted servants, and
the increasing hardships of day-to-day survival in a land where
nothing can be taken for granted. By now, Tasmin is married to the
elusive young mountain man Jim Snow (the "Sin Killer").
On his part, Jim is about to discover that in taking the
outspoken, tough-minded, stubbornly practical young aristocratic
woman into his teepee he has bitten off more than he can chew.
Still, theirs is a great love affair and dominates this volume of
Larry McMurtry's "The Berrybender Narratives, " in which Tasmin
gradually takes center stage as her father loses his strength and
powers of concentration, and her family goes to pieces stranded in
the hostile wilderness.
"The Wandering Hill" (which refers to a powerful and threatening
legend in local Indian folklore) is at once literature on a grand
scale and riveting entertainment by a master storyteller.
At its heart, The Hi Lo Country is the story of the friendship
between two men, their mutual love of a woman, and their allegiance
to the harsh, dry, achingly beautiful New Mexico high-desert
grassland. The story is told by Pete, a young ranch hand, whose
best friend is Big Boy Matson. Together they drink, gamble, fight,
work, and rodeo. They both fall hard for a married woman--the
attractive, bored, and dangerous Mona. When it was first published
in 1961, the novel was both a celebration and an elegy. It captured
something jagged and authentic in the West, and it caught the
attention of Hollywood--notably Sam Peckinpah, who spent twenty
years trying to make a movie of this multilayered and plainspoken
novel. It would take another twenty years for Martin Scorcese and
Stephen Frears to finally do it. Now in a special 60th anniversary
edition, The Hi Lo Country continues to tell a quintessential story
of the people and the land found in the American West.
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